Posts Tagged ‘Social Bookmarking’
There probably arn’t many out there who arnt’ aware of the traffic potential that sites such as www.digg.com can offer - social networking sites that share bookmarks can (if used right) draw some good traffic to your site.
However the first trick is to get your users to digg your page - looking for a quick way to do this? well why not add a digg this link to your articles?
Digg.com have summed up what you need to do in a neat page which can be found http://digg.com/tools/integrate so why not have a trundle over and have a look!
Social Bookmark sites like http://del.icio.us/ have been around for a while now - and used right can be a real source of some quality traffic. But if you have a site or blog you need to configure your site so that visitors can easily bookmark your pages.
This is where the handy site http://www.ifeedreaders.com/social-creator/ comes in - configure which sites you want your users to bookmark to - follow the creation wizard and hey presto - some neat code you can add to your site - automatically generating the links you’ll need.
With support for blogger and wordpress it couldn’t be easier - check it out!
While most webmasters will know of sites like Digg, stumbleupon etc - did you know there are actually masses of Social bookmarking sites out there. Now we all know that Digg is notoriously difficult to get noticed on (but it can provide some decent traffic through Digg searches) so the other social bookmarking sites (certainly niche ones) should offer a more reasonable target.
The ever wonderfull http://www.searchengineguide.com/ has an excellent piece on social bookmarking sites and links out to a variety of lists rounding up some of the best ones out there.
Check the link here http://www.searchengineguide.com/laycock/010829.html
Following our post on http://www.totalwebsitetoolkit.com/2007/10/list-of-social-bookmarking-sites.html. Here’s our list on 6 upand coming social bookmarking sites as an alternative to Digg.
While we still love Digg - it’s ever more difficult to get on the frong page and given it’s wide interests maybee not so great for niche publishers. So as an alternative why not give these six a try.
Looking for more alternatives to Digg? try this great link for 30 top social bookmark links